"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
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In message , Ami Silberman
writes

I don't want to make it look, however, like I'm unaware that life on the
reservations was pretty harsh, with BIA agents (and contractors) given
virtual unlimited authority, with corruption rampant, and with forced
relocation and assimilation of children through the Indian School System
(including Carlisle), which continued until, IIRC, the 1950s. A reference
to
how bad the system was can be found in the following book review:

http://oyate.org/books-to-avoid/myHeart.html

Perhaps I'm missing the point, but isn't that review about how bad the
book is? In other words, can you trust anything it says?
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I'm citing the review's description of the BIA schools, not what the review
attributes to the book. It was the handiest reference that I could find
off-hand and a nice encapsulation. I have a passing knowledge about the
Indian schools due to second-hand effect from my dad's research. (Growing up
in the house of a researcher often ends up with a lot of learning via
osmosis.)